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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
The Australian market has flat to mixed negative leads from offshore trading overnight. The Dow ended higher, but Wall Streets's other key indices were lower, as were European and Asian markets in Wednesday trade. Precious metals were higher, but oil ...

US reforms open doors for tax-savvy advice

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
Financial planners in the US have welcomed proposed reforms that will call to an end a government ruling that stops them from recommending certain tax strategies. The planning industry welcomed the decision of the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary ...

Wall Street does an Abbott

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011

Treasury targets $18.8bn in lost super

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
Draft legislation released by the Treasury on Friday has called for submissions regarding the use of tax file numbers (TFNs) on superannuation funds, a motion receiving mixed responses from the industry. The draft proposes to assign TFNs to identify ...

Govt lays ground for Stronger Super

GOVT RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
Paul Costello, former Future Fund general manager, has been named the chair of the Stronger Super Peak Consultative Group, a panel made up of the 15 representatives of key stakeholders in the superannuation sector. The panel has been tasked with advising ...

Chimerica threat looms over returns

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
A leading fund manager argues that many investors are too pessimistic about the US and too optimistic about other markets, particularly China. Speaking at a lunch briefing yesterday, Martin Conlon, head of Australian equities at Schroder Investment ...

Middle East mole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
Better the mole you expect. America's still whacking its mole of tepid economic growth with the twin hammers of the US Federal Reserve's US$600 billion QE2 and the Obama administration's fiscal largesse. So far these twin hammers appear to be doing ...

Downgrade me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
I don't know about you but it seems to me that everybody and his dog are now tuning in into the "Fiscal Deficit & Sovereign Debt Watch" show. Of course, there's nothing closer to our Australian hearts than the Gillard and Swan tandem disaster levy just ...

SimCorp signs Fennia Mutual

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011
Finland-based Finnish Fennia Mutual Insurance Company has chosen SimCorp Dimension as its new investment management platform. Fennia Mutual Insurance Company will be using SimCorp Dimension front-to-back. Following a detailed selection process, Fennia ...

More tax changes needed to aid local funds: BDO

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
Advisory firm BDO has raised its concerns on the Government's proposed tax changes on investment income of foreign funds, arguing they do not fully address the tax uncertainties that make Australian capital markets less appealing to overseas investors. ...